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  The lives and times in Duckburg - Chapter III
The organisation was thus named "The Junior Woodchucks" after the "Woodchuck militia" that in earlier days had defended the settlement against hostile Indians and other threats.
Since the Woodchuck Militia was disbanded JW was allowed to use Fort Duckburg as their headquarters.
Storekeeper and the founder of "The Junior Woodchucks".
victorian.fortunecity.com /palace/439/duckburg/chapter3.html   (943 words)

  
 A Militia Memorial Service
Here relatives and friends of slain militia leader Michael Hill were gathering to mourn his death one year ago at the hand of a Frazeysburg, Ohio, sheriff's deputy.
Nearby were eight or so militia members in camouflage outfits, but most people had dressed for the very hot and muggy day in shirts and shorts.
It was ironic to see this material at a militia gathering, given that J. Johnson, the African-American leader of the Ohio Unorganized Militia until very recently, had made a career of asserting that the militia was not racist.
www.adl.org /mwd/memorial.asp   (2706 words)

  
 Vermont - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Smaller animals include the muskrat, skunk, raccoon, and mink, which are hunted for their pelts, and the rabbit, squirrel, and woodchuck.
Ethan Allen, his brothers, Ira and Levi, and Seth Warner helped organize various local militias into the Green Mountain Boys to fight New Yorkers who came to enforce the court decree.
Under the joint command of militia leader Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen, they attacked the British, capturing Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
encarta.msn.com /text_761573766___0/Vermont.html   (7594 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Cornelius Coot
Cornelius organized the citizens that could carry weapons into the Woodchuck Militia, a force that would guard the territory from any threat, including any conflicts with the natives of the area.
Cornelius turned the old Fort into the militia's base.
He personally supervised the repairs to the Fort and had the idea to build underground tunnels under the Fort so that even during a siege they could still move in and out of the Fort.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/co/Cornelius_Coot   (714 words)

  
 West Virginia Memory Project - Film Transcripts
A militia officer warned that soon there wouldn't be a settler west of the mountains.
Militia forces at Harpers Ferry were put under the command of Colonel Thomas Jackson, who had not hesitated in siding with his native Virginia.
Corn would be planted maybe three to five grains to a hill, one for the woodchuck, one for the crow, one for the weather, and two to grow.
www.wvculture.org /history/wvmemory/filmtranscripts/wv.html   (20180 words)

  
 The lives and times in Duckburg - Short list of events
Cornelius Coot founds "The Woodchuck Militia" to protect the area from hostile Indians and other threats.
The birth of Clinton Coot, the founder of "The Junior Woodchucks".
The Woodchuck militia rides together with colonel Theodore Roosevelt, at the charge-up San Juan Ridge.
duckman.pettho.com /history/appendix1.html   (890 words)

  
 Family Founder
Born in the Netherlands to English parents, he became a professional soldier and was brought to Massachusetts in 1630 to train the colony’s militia.
We know from history that he called the "First Muster" of the Militia on the commons at Salem, MA.
Dogs were important for field hunting for grouse, pheasant and woodchuck.
underhillsociety.org /ff.htm   (1760 words)

  
 Delaware (state) - Search View - MSN Encarta
Virginia deer, raccoon, skunk, opossum, cottontail rabbit, groundhog, woodchuck, and muskrat live in most parts of the state, as does a diversity of birds.
This was the beginning of what was to be Delaware’s most important industry, the Du Pont Chemical Company.
With an increasing Northern commercial orientation, Delaware sided with the Union during the American Civil War, but many of the state’s residents were Confederate sympathizers; units of the state militia were twice disarmed because of presumed disloyalty.
uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761564845__1/Delaware_(state).html   (2153 words)

  
 THE JUNIOR CHICKADEES Disney
In Disney's fictional Donald Duck universe, The Junior Chickadees is an organization for girls, the female counterparts of The Junior Woodchucks.
Donald Duck universe, The Junior Chickadees is an organization for girls, the female counterparts of The Junior Woodchucks...
Barks the Junior Woodchucks' honor is at stake after being challenged to a woodcraft challenge by the Little Chickadees...
digilander.libero.it /all_disney/The_Junior_Chickadees.html   (744 words)

  
 Quotes on
The drum-major of our holiday militia companies is copied exactly from the turkey gobbler; he has the same splendid appearance, the same proud step, and the same martial aspect.
John then made a pivot of one leg and whirled himself around, swinging the woodchuck in the air, until he shook him off; but in his departure the woodchuck carried away a large piece of John's summer trousers-leg.
The sight of a woodchuck at a distance from his well-known hole tempted John, but he restrained himself, lest somebody should see him, and know that chasing a woodchuck was inconsistent with the stomach-ache.
www.ufaqs.com /quotes/index.php?resource=2674   (21563 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Arming America: the Origins of a National Gun Culture: Books: Michael Bellesiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
From his treatment of the letter, author would have us think that it was normal for militia to have a weapons ownership rate of 10%.
Revisionists would have us believe that "the people" of the first amendment are the whole people, but "the people" of the second amendment is not, and that it only refers to members of the national guard.
He clearly has forgotten that it was the militia that drove the British from Washington during the War of 1812, the Army not being within a hundred miles at the time.
www.amazon.ca /Arming-America-Origins-National-Culture/dp/0375402101   (2248 words)

  
 Helena Independent Record
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, and U.S. President George W. Bush speak to reporters during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2006.
Bush and Blair defended their insistence that any solution to the current crisis must also address its root causes, saying to do anything else would ensure a return to violence and long-term suffering for the Lebanese people.
They were referring particularly to the call contained in a 2004 U.N. Security Council resolution that Lebanese militias such as Hezbollah be disarmed _ something the Lebanese government has been unable and unwilling to do.
www.helenair.com /articles/2006/07/28/national_top/000force.txt   (955 words)

  
 Woodchuck Adventures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The graph to the right maps number of woodchucks as a function of time.
We're mistaken for a militia by our fellow hikers, one of whom reports us to the FBI.
2010: The Woodchuck political party wins its first Congressional seat, when Peg replaces Charles Shumer as Senator from New York.
users.bestweb.net /~rideau/woodchuck/woodchuck2003/extrapol.html   (205 words)

  
 Helena Independent Record
An aide to al-Sistani, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the ayatollah wants both the Americans and al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army out of the holy cities in southern Iraq but has avoided an explicit call because he knows neither side is prepared to accept it.
Mark Hertling, deputy commander of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division, said there were indications that al-Sadr was trying to bring in fighters to reinforce his militia in Karbala, about 50 miles south of Baghdad.
U.S. officials have insisted that al-Sadr disband his militia and answer charges in the murder of a rival cleric in April 2003.
www.helenair.com /articles/2004/05/19/national/a11051904_01.txt   (982 words)

  
 History of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Freedonia
As a result, world famous rodentologists have noted that their numbers have dropped dramatically and they are being threatened with extinction.
Further complicating all this is the recent move by a number of Provincial Militia naval craft from southern Doshi.
The self-appointed southern Doshian Peoples' Provincial Volunteer Militia Maritime Self-Defense Force Auxilary (DPPVMMSDFA) made a bold move by sending a mixed fleet of tugs and small fishing boats plus eight war-surplus landing craft with several hundred men, women and children to Qing!zhang last week.
www.personal.kent.edu /~dhart/ip/fhistory.htm   (1529 words)

  
 Chickadee Malitia? - Don Rosa Bulletin Board
I know the Woodchuck Militia spawned the Junior Wooodchucks.
I don't think there was just a ranking Militia for women....
Madame Comic Collector: Carl Barks' main story involving the Chickadees was the 10-pager in Comics & Stories #181, October '55.
thunder.prohosting.com /~bulletin/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000050.html   (159 words)

  
 FIERY AVENGER!!
If you give it to the one on the right, you will be teleported to a room in the freeport militia house where Sir Lucan and his body guards are located.
He says that if you are a knight of valor you will know the answer to this riddle.
He ask," how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?".
p088.ezboard.com /fsalvationarchives.showMessage?topicID=181.topic   (660 words)

  
 woodchuck - OneLook Dictionary Search
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "woodchuck" is defined.
Woodchuck : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include woodchuck: woodchuck book, woodchuck cider, woodchuck hepatitis b virus, woodchuck militia
www.onelook.com /?w=woodchuck   (232 words)

  
 The Beginning was to Stand Up
They were a young couple to have a ten-year-old son; they were handsome and high-spirited; he, lusty and chick-set, a true Dutchman; she, showing her Palatine breeding, dark, brown-eyed, with fl hair braided round her head, her slim body limber and quick about her work.
She had had a restless night; it was seldom that her husband had been away overnight--three times since they had been married, she could name each one--but those times it was business in Albany that had kept him away, settling the rent with Patroon Van Rensselaer, or looking up a slave for his mother.
A line of smoke, snatched from the chimney by the wind, showed her that Edward was down and had freshened the fire.
www.vidyaonline.net /arvindgupta/matchlock.html   (5817 words)

  
 Dark Empire
It doesn't matter if you have a monstrous army of archers and knights at the front if you let your economy in the rear areas go to waste.
They not only provide protection for the militia units, but they also heal them, in return, the soldiery increases the attack strength of a tower or town center and can prevent the enemy from getting an accurate head count.
A good tactic is to leave an archer or two in a town center to beef up its ranged attack.
www.freewebtown.com /darkempire/news.htm   (4335 words)

  
 Austin Bay Blog » A combat engineer looks at the bomb attack on the Shia mosque in Samarra
I have been out of the active combat engineer business for a couple of years and am relying on my memory and a dogged ear copy of my Junior Woodchuck Manual (FM 5-34) which addresses only the simplest of battle field demolition operations.
Without a view of the interior of the Shrine there is a lot left to conjecture.
The amount of explosive required at any one point to do the damage would not be that great about ten pounds as an off hand guess based upon a quick glance at Junior Woodchuck Manual (FM 5-34), the demolitions section.
austinbay.net /blog/?p=953   (1062 words)

  
 Who's who in Duckburg - Cornelius Coot
It is as of yet still unknown where he lived before his arrival to Duckburg in 1818, but since he was a hunter, he may have moved around a bit.
To defend the area from all kind of enemies he later formed the Woodchuck Militia.
There is as of yet not much known about what happened to Cornelius after this.
victorian.fortunecity.com /palace/439/characters/cornel.html   (490 words)

  
 Hillsborough, North Carolina
It is believed that the Regulators were precursors of the American Revolution and illustrates the desire for independence many colonists had during this time.
In February of 1781 General Charles Cornwallis used the town as his headquarters while he recruited for his militia from the residents of Orange County, some of whom were loyal to the British and others who were revolutionaries.
least 61 species of fish, 12 species of freshwater mussels, many of which are on endangered species lists; seven species of turtles; 14 species of snakes; 15 species of amphibians; and a variety of mammals including beaver, river otter, muskrat, woodchuck, weasel, mink, and white-tailed deer.
www.northcarolinatravels.com /hillsborough/index.htm   (2083 words)

  
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Whenever he was stopped by patrols he would display his letter from the Minister of Militia and explain that he was trying to overtake the Canadian troops.
It reminded me of woodchucks coming out of their holes.
As the siege progressed and the German guns were pushed nearer to the city, those who lived in what might be termed "conspicuous" localities began to seek other quarters.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/1/3/9/11394/11394-8.txt   (19879 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
Among the widespread mammals of Rhode Island are white-tailed deer, beaver, otter, rabbit, raccoon, skunk, squirrel, and woodchuck.
Economic growth encouraged immigration and urbanization, but newcomers found themselves disenfranchised under the existing Charter of 1663, which limited suffrage to landowners.
A movement to modify the state’s outdated charter, led by Thomas W. Dorr (1805–54) of Providence, ended in 1842 with an armed revolt that had to be put down by the state militia.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/rhodeisland.html   (3488 words)

  
 Cox & Forkum: April 2004 Archives
Al-Sadr and his militia deserve nothing more than what Israel gave to Yassin.
In the holy city of Najaf in southern Iraq, al-Sadr's militia was in control of government, police and spiritual sites, a coalition source said.
Al-Sadr also was busing followers into Najaf from Sadr City, a Baghdad neighborhood, according to the coalition source, who said that many members of his outlawed militia, Mehdi's Army, were from surrounding provinces.
www.coxandforkum.com /archives/2004_04.html   (6936 words)

  
 LUMPY'S PLACE
They are pretty good quality and may take as long as 20 minutes (or more) each to download if you are on dial-up.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Second Amendment to The Constitution of The United States.
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Militia All-Stars laces Street Fury with "Comin' At Cha" off their album of the same name.
You'll also hear a podcast exclusive from rapper Lord G of Militia, a burnin' track called "What It Do," only available here.
Quicktime Video Windows Media Video The woodchuck has an encounter with his girlfriend's sister.
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 Sequential Tart: Thirteen Reasons Why I Love Uncle Scrooge Comics (vol IX/iss 5/May 2006)
On many of those treasure quests The Junior Woodchucks and their Guidebook are an indispensible resource.
I don't know if the story of how and why Huey, Dewey and Louie became Woodchucks has ever been told *coughhintcough* or how the Guidebook and Source of Inexhaustible Knowledge was assembled *coughhintcough* but the Woodchucks as an organization go back almost to the very beginning of Duckburg.
See, Cornelius Coot bought an old Fort from the British, which was manned by his Woodchuck Militia; Coot's son Clinton then founded the Junior Woodchucks — who were the only ones living in the broken down Fort when Scrooge took possession.
www.sequentialtart.com /article.php?id=116   (1283 words)

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